Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts Viewer

Interactive map is here, its well worth a click!

http://www.csc.noaa.gov/slr/viewer/#

Overview

Features

• Displays potential future sea levels
• Provides simulations of sea level rise at local landmarks
• Communicates the spatial uncertainty of mapped sea levels
• Models potential marsh migration due to sea level rise
• Overlays social and economic data onto potential sea level rise
• Examines how tidal flooding will become more frequent with sea level rise

Being able to visualize potential impacts from sea level rise is a powerful teaching and planning tool, and the Sea Level Rise Viewer brings this capability to coastal communities. A slider bar is used to show how various levels of sea level rise will impact coastal communities. The initial project areas include Texas’ Houston and Galveston coasts and Mississippi, with additional coastal counties to be added in the near future. Visuals and the accompanying data and information cover sea level rise inundation, uncertainty, flood frequency, marsh impacts, and socioeconomics.